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Show 690 MR. F. MOORE ON N E W HESPERIDAE. [June 18, HALPE CEYLONICA, n. sp. (Plate XLV. fig. 9.) Upperside dark brown; base of wings and body olive-brown; fore wing with two contiguous subapical small white spots, two oblique discal small conical spots with deeply excavated outer border, and a smaller spot at upper end of the cell; the male with an oblique discal streak composed of broad raised darker brown scales; cilia brownish-cinereous, alternated with dark brown. Underside dark brown, speckled with ochreous scales ; fore wing with white spots as above, and a small spot also below the discal series; an upper submarginal row of indistinct pale ochreous spots ; hind wing with a broad transverse median and a maculated discal greyish-ochreous band. Palpi, body beneath, and legs greyish-ochreous. Expanse, 3 ly*^, $ If inch. Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M . Mackwood and F. Moore. HALPE BETURIA. Hesperia beturia, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 36 (1868). Hab. Calcutta district (Atkinson and Farr); Andamans (Bcep-storff). HALPE LUTEISQUAMA. Pamphila luteisquama, Mabille. Hab. Luzon. HALPE DOLOPIA. Hesperia dolopia, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 27 (1868) ; Exot. Butt. Hesp. pl. 6. f. 60, 61. Hab. Darjiling (Atkinson). HALPE RADIANS, n. sp. (Plate XLV. fig. 1.) Male. Upperside luteous-brown, basal hairy scales yellow. Cilia cinereous-white : fore wing with a pale yellow constricted spot at end of the cell, and an irregular transverse continuous discal band of spots with their lower angles continued outward along the veins ; hind wing with a yellow streak at end of the cell, and a short discal band with outer rays. Underside paler, minutely speckled with yellowish-white; fore wing as above, the hind margin being also broadly yellow ; hind wing with a subbasal spot, all the veins, and two (a median and a discal) transverse sinuous bands pale yellow. Palpi, body beneath, and legs yellowish-white. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Dhurmsala, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. PAMPHILA PALMARUM, n. sp. (Plate XLV. figs. 6 & 7, 2 3 .) Differs from typical Java specimens of P. augias, Linn., in its much larger size, the male having the markings above paler yellow and broader, the impressed oblique discal streak on the fore wing being-obsolete, the outer border of the discal band much less sinuous, and the yellow colour not extending along the veins to the exterior margin of the wing. |